Henry Real Bird

Henry Real Bird (born July 24, 1948), a member of the Crow Nation,^[1] grew up ranching on the battlegrounds of the Little Big Horn on the Crow Reservation in Montana. A former rodeo cowboy, appointed as Montana's Poet Laureate in 2009,^[2] Henry still lives in and draws inspiration from the land of the Little and Big Horn Valleys.^[3] Horses picture large in Henry’s creative work^[4] and are the thread of his Rivers of Horse CD. In the summer of 2010, as Montana’s Poet Laureate, Henry traveled by horseback 415 miles to distribute books of poetry.^[5]

References

1. Cheyfitz, Eric (2006). The Columbia guide to American Indian literatures of the United States since 1945. Columbia University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-231-11764-7.
2. "Governor Announces Henry Real Bird as Montana's Poet Laureate - Humanities Roundtable". Retrieved 2012-05-05.
3. Thomas, David Hurst (1999). Exploring ancient native America: an archaeological guide. Routledge. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-415-92359-0.
4. Elkins, Andrew (2002). Another place: an ecocritical study of selected western American poets. TCU Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-87565-259-7.
5. "Across Montana On Horseback, Poet Hands Out Poetry". NPR. July 30, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011.